TBS8520 Transcoder Server User Guide

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2018-06-21

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 Catalog
1. Product Overview ................................................................................................................................................ 3
1.1 Product Presentation ................................................................................................................................. 3
1.2 Product Specifications ............................................................................................................................... 4
2. Quick Start ........................................................................................................................................................... 6
3. Home Page ........................................................................................................................................................... 8
4.Management Page ................................................................................................................................................ 8
4.1 General Setting .......................................................................................................................................... 8
4.2 Users Setting .............................................................................................................................................. 9
4.3 Other page ................................................................................................................................................. 9
5.Content Page.......................................................................................................................................................11
5.1 General Setting ........................................................................................................................................11
5.1.1 Setting ...........................................................................................................................................11
5.1.2 Advanced Settings.........................................................................................................................12
5.2 Profiles Setting .........................................................................................................................................12
5.2.1 Preprocessing Profile ....................................................................................................................12
5.2.2 Post-processing Profile(Transcode Profile) ...................................................................................13
5.2.3 Output Profile(HLS/ABR Profile) ...................................................................................................15
5.3 DVB Management ....................................................................................................................................16
5.3.1 Transponders(DVBS/S2, DVBT/T2, DVB-C, ATSC…)........................................................................16
5.3.2 All Channels ..................................................................................................................................18
5.3.3 TV Channels ..................................................................................................................................20
5.3.4 Radio Channels .............................................................................................................................20
5.3.5 Tuner Cards ...................................................................................................................................21
5.3.6 Modulators ...................................................................................................................................22
5.4 Import Stream Management ...................................................................................................................22
5.4.1 Unicast Stream Import ..................................................................................................................22
5.4.2 Multicast Stream Import ...............................................................................................................23
5.4.3 HTTP Stream Import .....................................................................................................................24
5.4.4 HTTP Live Playlists .........................................................................................................................25
5.4.5 MPTS stream Import .....................................................................................................................27
5.4.6 Local Files Import ..........................................................................................................................29
5.5 Broadcasting Status .................................................................................................................................30
5.5.1 Multicast Status ............................................................................................................................30
5.5.2 DVB-C Output Status .....................................................................................................................30
5.5.3 ASI Modulator Status ....................................................................................................................30
6.Status Page .........................................................................................................................................................31
6.1 Monitoring ...............................................................................................................................................31
6.2 Resources(Output Stream Address).........................................................................................................34
7.System Page ........................................................................................................................................................35
7.1 General Setting ........................................................................................................................................35
7.2 Host Setting..............................................................................................................................................35
7.3 Services Setting ........................................................................................................................................36
7.4 Network Setting .......................................................................................................................................37

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1. Product Overview

1.1 Product Presentation

TBS8520 multiple inputs H.264/H.265 IPTV transcoder is TBS latest product, which is designed for our TBS
TV tuner card customers. It’s a high-performance video server that features in high integration and reliable
hardware transcoding server. Because the original data rate from DVB-S/S2 channels is very high, send it to
internet directly will cost a lot of bandwidth, then you need both receiving server and transcode server to
lowdown the bit rate, this is not convenient and will greatly increase the cost of the solution.

Now with TBS8520 real-time transcoder server you can Receiving and Transcoding at the same time, this is
acost-effective solution for OTT IPTV providers. With Two Giga Ethernet Ports, it can be configured to transcode
up to 80SD or 30 Full HD streams simultaneously, and equipped with 2 TBS Tuner/Capture PCI-e card inputs(up
to 16 tuners) to receive channels directly from satellite or ASI / IP inputs to receive digital channels.

It can be easily managed through NMS system, and has become an ideal solution for operator to provide
high quality video transcoding. TBS8520 is a real multi-channel/formal transocoding server which answers all
market requirements and is thus the suitable solution to Terrestrial, Satellite, Cable, IPTV networks

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1.2 Product Specifications

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Size 2U

2xRJ45, 1000M Base-T2

Input interface
2xPCI-E slot

Input

Input Signal DVBS/S2, DVBT/T2, DVBC, ATSC, ISDBT, DTMB, HDMI, ASI

Input Net Stream UDP, RTP, HTTP, HLS, Media Files

Video codecs MPEG-2, AVC / H.264, HEVC / H.265

1920x1080P, 1920x1080i, 1280x720P, 720x576i, 720x480i, 480x576, 544x576,

Resolution
640x576,704x576

Audio codecs AAC, MP2, MP3, AC-3

Output

Output types UDP, RTMP, HTTP, HLS, Media Files

Video codecs MPEG-2, AVC / H.264, HEVC / H.265

1920x1080P, 1920x1080i, 1280x720P, 720x576i, 720x480i, 480x576, 544x576, 640x576,

Resolution
704x576

Audio codecs AAC, MP3

Rate Control CBR/VBR

up to 80 SD / 30 HD1080 AVC(H.264) streams

Transcoder
up to 50 SD / 26 HD1080 HEVC(H.265) streams

Power
65W ~ 250W
Consumption

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2. Quick Start

When you get your TBS8520 please use the default Ethernet LAN1 and use the DPI to VGA converter
coming with TBS8520 connect to your monitor

Then power on after a while you can get this information from your screen:

You can see that the server

default IP: 10.47.48.1/255.255.240.0
Username : admin
Password: kylone@1
Make sure that your PC is set to be the same range IP of TBS8520.

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You can using Google Chrome Browse to open the main page of TBS8520 like this :

after Sign in then you can see the whole panel of TBS8520:

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3. Home Page

Home page you can get the server CPU and Memory Usage status and Ethernet Input and Output status

4.Management Page

4.1 General Setting

Allow Remote Devices this option is used to enable or disable the stream can be play from TBS8520,if you set
to Yes then you can use VLC play the stream from TBS8520. if you are using RTMP send the stream to your CDN
then you can disable this to protect your stream .

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4.2 Users Setting

This page you can manage the login user account ,you can delete or create new account .

4.3 Other page

This is page show all clients connect information include which application and how long it has been
connected.

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 And you can click one of the IP it will show the detail page, you can disable this IP do not let it get the
stream from our TBS8520 protect your stream you can set like this :

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5.Content Page

5.1 General Setting

5.1.1 Setting

Streaming Configuration: this is the HTTP output option you can choose which Ethernet used to streaming. our
default mode is HTTP output.
Broadcasting (System Defaults): This is the global multicast output option. You can choose which Ethernet
used to streaming and the IGMP version.
Update Information: When you added new channels and make some change of the channels setting you need
to commit here to let it work, like this:

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5.1.2 Advanced Settings

Unicast/Multicast/HTTP Stream Acquisition: You can set but many buffer time our server will cache the stream
then start processing.
HTTP Live Stream Acquisition: This you can set the HTTP import stream option the connection timeout and
the buffer time.

5.2 Profiles Setting

5.2.1 Preprocessing Profile

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This is the soft decryption profile setting you can create new profile like this:

5.2.2 Post-processing Profile(Transcode Profile)

You can press New Record to create a new transcoding profile:

HW Acceleration : as we have two GPU inside so you can choose Node 1 or Node 2
Input Video Codec H.264/MPEG-4 : you can set to auto detect the video type
Deinterlacing Mode: recommend set 2
Drop Second Fileld : Recommend set to Yes
Advanced : If you have your own parameters for ffmpeg you can add her such as -x xx
Video Codec : You can set with H.264 or H.265
Profile : It is the H.264 or H.264 encoder profile recommend set with Main
Preset : If you want to process more video you can try with High Performance, if you want to have better
picture then try with High Quality.
Scaling: You can scale the video size here set the one you want or keep original one
Aspect Ratio: you can set 4:3 16:9 or keep original
Audio Code: AAC
Samping Rate: recommend try with 44.1 KHz
Channels: recommend 2
Audio Bitrate : recommend 128kb/s
Video Bitrate control : CBR/VBR
Video Bitrate: you can set 300k to 10000k
Embed Subtitle : if the TS Stream have subtitle inside then you can use this to embed the subtitle to video and
set the position where to show the subtitle.
Embed Watermark: You can upload the logo you want to show and set the postion.
Advanced : If you have new parameters you want to use you can manual add here

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Here is the example HD source in output is H.264 and bit rate is 2Mbps

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5.2.3 Output Profile(HLS/ABR Profile)

This is the HLS&ABR output profile setting, you can press New Record to create a new profile
compare with transcoding profile it have option for ABR setting like this :

You can see that you have 6 profile, you can enable and set by yourself. then you can set the HLS chunk value
here:

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5.3 DVB Management

5.3.1 Transponders(DVBS/S2, DVBT/T2, DVB-C, ATSC…)

Here you can create manage all the DVB-S/S2, DVB-T/T2,DVB-C,ISDB-T,ATSC transponders, let us create one
DVB-S2 transponder as example

press New Record then you can get this dialog:

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Choose the system type with DVB-S2 and input the Frequency value with Hz. then press Save you will see this:

If you are using TBS Multi Standard Tuner card such as TBS6590, TB6528, TBS6522 when you lock DVB-S/S2
transponder the Frontend Number value you need to set to 1 like this :

Other mode you can keep the value as Default.

Fill all value then press save, then go to the transponder bottom press Scan button:

after press scan then you can choose the tuner you want to use to scan this transponder ,please choose the
one which is not in use:

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Choose the tuner press scan wait about a few second it will auto show the scan result here if the signal is well
you will see the scan result like this:

after success scan press ok then you can go to All Channels to configure the channels

5.3.2 All Channels

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Let us choose P22 for example click P22 it will show the channels property, Press Edit to start configure :

Record Details of Channel

PIDs: Here you can filter the PID you do not want to use, just need to remove it .
PID Information
Here you can get the channel all PID information
Channel Configuration
Current State: You can disable or enable the channel status here
Broadcasting
Here you can set the channels output as multicast
CDN Upload (RTMP upload configuration)
Profile: Choose RTMP
Endpoint URL: The server address to send the stream, such as : rtmp://61.183.xx.xx/live/
Stream Name: The name of the stream, such as : sports
Username: Your RTMP server user name
Password: Your RTMP server password
Transcoding: Choose the Transcoding profile used to process this channel.
Example:

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External Modules
Preprocessing: Choose the soft decryption profile you want to use
Post-processing: Choose the transcoding profile you want to use
Output: If you want output HLS/ABR stream you can choose the profile you want to use .
Example:

or

You can output default http, udp as Post-processing profile or HLS/ABR as Output profile

5.3.3 TV Channels

List all TV Channels

5.3.4 Radio Channels

List all Radio Channels

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5.3.5 Tuner Cards

Here you can see all tuner status:

You can see that no tuner is in use press edit to assign the transponder to the tuner you want to use .let us
assign one transponder to Input-1 like this :

after assign press save then go back to setting to commit :

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5.3.6 Modulators

use with TBS DVB-C modulator

5.4 Import Stream Management

5.4.1 Unicast Stream Import

You can input the unicast stream here ,press New Recorder to create a new one .
Record Details of Unicast Acquisition
Display Name : The name of the unicast stream
Interface : Choose the interface we are receiving the unicast stream
Port Address 4001-4250: The Port number of the unicast stream
Channel Configuration
You can disable or enable the stream with Current State option
Engine Configuration
Stream Model: We have two option Passthrough and Cached Streaming , Passthrough mean the stream will
direct streaming out if the input stream speed is fast then you can use this option , Cached Streaming mean
our server will cache about 5 to 10 seconds (You can set this value at Advanced Settings)then start streaming
when the speed is not very fast use this option..
Double Buffer: If the stream still not smoothly you can enable this option to set double buffer.
Broadcasting
You can multicast this stream here
CDN Upload
It is the same like channels CDN Upload setting you can check here
External Modules
It is the same like channels External Modules setting you can check here
as our server IP is 10.47.48.1 let us take this udp stream as example udp://@10.47.48.1:4001

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5.4.2 Multicast Stream Import

You can input the multicast stream here ,press New Recorder to create a new one .
Record Details of Multicast
Display Name : The name of the multicast stream
Interface : Choose the interface we are receiving the multicast stream
IGMP version: You can choose Automatic,1,2,3
Multicast Address: the udp multicast address
Port Address: The Port number of the multicast stream

Channel Configuration
You can disable or enable the stream with Current State option

Engine Configuration
Stream Model : We have two option Passthrough and Cached Streaming , Passthrough mean the stream will
direct streaming out if the input stream speed is fast then you can use this option , Cached Streaming mean
our server will cache about 5 to 10 seconds (You can set this value at Advanced Settings)then start streaming
when the speed is not very fast use this option..
Double Buffer: If the stream still not smoothly you can enable this option to set double buffer.

Broadcasting
You can multicast this stream here

CDN Upload
It is the same like channels CDN Upload setting you can check here

External Modules
It is the same like channels External Modules setting you can check here

Let us take this udp stream as example udp://@239.255.0.1:1234

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5.4.3 HTTP Stream Import

Record Details of HTTP Stream Acquisition

Display Name : The name of the HTTP stream
Stream URL: The URL of the HTTP stream

Channel Configuration
You can disable or enable the stream with Current State option

Engine Configuration
Stream Model : We have two option Passthrough and Cached Streaming , Passthrough mean the stream will
direct streaming out if the input stream speed is fast then you can use this option , Cached Streaming mean
our server will cache about 5 to 10 seconds (You can set this value at Advanced Settings)then start streaming
when the speed is not very fast use this option..
Double Buffer: If the stream still not smoothly you can enable this option to set double buffer.

Broadcasting
You can multicast this stream here

CDN Upload
It is the same like channels CDN Upload setting you can check here

External Modules
It is the same like channels External Modules setting you can check here

Let us take this HTTP stream as example http://10.47.48.123:9981/stream/channelnumber/8

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5.4.4 HTTP Live Playlists

Record Details of HTTP Live Stream

Display Name : The name of the HTTP playlist
Playlist Address: The playlist of the HTTP m3u8 file
Current State: You can enable and disable the playlist here

Engine Configuration
Stream Model : We have two option Passthrough and Cached Streaming , Passthrough mean the stream will
direct streaming out if the input stream speed is fast then you can use this option , Cached Streaming mean
our server will cache about 5 to 10 seconds (You can set this value at Advanced Settings)then start streaming
when the speed is not very fast use this option..
Connect On-Demand: You can enable this just when the client watch then start receiving and streaming it will
save the band width of the internet.
Double Buffer: If the stream still not smoothly you can enable this option to set double buffer.
Actions
Fetch the Playlist : After you create the playlist record, press Refresh button to get the channel list.

Let us take this list as example : http://10.47.48.2:81/all.m3u8

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after press Refresh if the playlist is ok then you can see the channels like this :

You can click one channel start configuration like this :

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5.4.5 MPTS stream Import

Record Details of MPTS

Display Name : The name of the MPTS
Transmission : You can choose mulitcast , unicast , HTTP
Transport Protocol : You can choose RTP,Raw

Let us using one MPTS for test the address is multicast : udp://@239.255.0.1:5002 ,press New Recorder then
input like this :

Press save then input other value like this :

Save again then go to the bottom press Scan:

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wait about few seconds then it will auto show the scan result like this :

Press ok then go to Program List ->View to configuration every channels :

Click one of channel start your configuration.

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5.4.6 Local Files Import

Pres New Recorder to create a new one

Record Details of Local File
Display Name : The name of the local file channel name
File Name : The name of the file you want to use
Loop : When the file end it will auto restart again.

Channel Configuration
You can disable or enable the channel with Current State option

Engine Configuration
Double Buffer: If the stream still not smoothly you can enable this option to set double buffer.

Broadcasting
You can multicast this stream here

CDN Upload
It is the same like channels CDN Upload setting you can check here

External Modules
It is the same like channels External Modules setting you can check here

let us use spider.ts file as example :

Then open the server samba folder with \\10.47.48.1

user name and password is kylone / kylone

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Open then go to files folder and put the spider.ts file to it

after this close the window go back to Content->Settings->Commit to let it work

5.5 Broadcasting Status

5.5.1 Multicast Status

Here list all multicast output channels

5.5.2 DVB-C Output Status

Here is the DVB-C output status

5.5.3 ASI Modulator Status

Here is the ASI status

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6.Status Page

6.1 Monitoring

Here you can get all channels status and you can separately stop, restart every channels .

Transponder :
You can get the transponder lock status Strength, SNR, Bitrate, and you can restart and stop with the option
button.
Restart:

Stop:

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Preprocessing:
Soft decryption Status

You can get all channels status if you find one of channel status is not ok ,you can separate restart this channel
with restart button.

CDN Uploads:

Here is the RTMP upload status .You can check how long time and the upload bit rate and separately restart.

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Post-Processing(Transcoding Status):

Here you can see the transcoded channels output bit rate and how long it has been transcoded and you can
separately restart the channels here.

Peers:

Here you can see that which IP and port connected and which channel it is in using ,the output data rate , how
long it has been connect ,current status .

And you can go to the Media Players page to set the Status.

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6.2 Resources(Output Stream Address)

Stream URLs

Click to download the playlist is the whole channels list like this :
http://192.168.0.188:81/all.m3u8

Channel URL is the URL for every channels such as

http://192.168.0.188:4750/6021/0/base/stream.ts

If you set the channel output as multicast then it will show the multicast URL like this :

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7.System Page

7.1 General Setting

Media Server
You can Stop or Start the Media server when you click Stop all channels will stop streaming. After stop you can
press start to let it running again.
Archiving
You can download current system configuration after click Download it will auto download one file like this :
kylone-microcms-services-20180620082304.dat
If you do some wrong configuration and you want to recover to the working status you can choose the *.dat file
then click Upload to Restore.
Licensing
You can remove or input licensing key here
System Operations
You can reboot the server with Apply button

7.2 Host Setting

You can set the system Time Information .

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7.3 Services Setting

SNMP

You can configuration the SNMP here

External Modules

We support external Modules you can open the samba folder and put the modules to mods folder like this :

After put the files inside mods folder then press Scan, It will auto load the modules and list here.

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7.4 Network Setting

Interfaces

You can click the port you want to configuration such as enp8s0:

After set do not forget press Commit to let it work.

If you have any problem with TBS8520 Please send email to our support@tbsdtv.com, we will reply you as
soon as possible.

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